What are you reading?

[Connemara]

Still working through The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry. Poetry is not something that I read quickly (it's not something that anybody should rush through IMO) so this will take a while. Over halfway done with Hollinghurst's Swimming-Pool Library. Maybe I'll try to kill it this weekend.

 

[romafan]

Originally Posted by Connemara

Still working through The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry. Poetry is not something that I read quickly (it's not something that anybody should rush through IMO) so this will take a while.

Conne, I don't think that pretending to be reading/interested in Irish female poets is gonna get you anything but possibly honorary membership in the Erin Go Braless Sapphos Society

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by romafan

Conne, I don't think that pretending to be reading/interested in Irish female poets is gonna get you anything but possibly honorary membership in the Erin Go Braless Sapphos Society

That was good. I have a soft spot for Irish poetry of all stripes. Women poets from Ireland are fantastic. Eavan Boland, Moya Cannon, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Medbh McGuckian, etc. They are all worth reading.

 

[skidsm]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

Funny, I guess I only understand depression on that level (assuming it's not caused by chemical imbalance). How can one be truly depressed without hope when there are things in one's life that be improved through action? However, when you've reached the top, succeeded at your craft and in the eyes of society, not sold out in the process, and you still find yourself asking: "Is this it? What is the meaning of this?", then you are in trouble, because a trip to the headhunter and new girlfriend are not gonna fix ****.

this week's New Yorker has an article on DFW that speaks to this issue a bit:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...309fa_fact_max

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by skidsm

this week's New Yorker has an article on DFW that speaks to this issue a bit:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...309fa_fact_max

On a related note, I'm currently reading The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus. Liking it so far.

 

[Spatlese]

Started reading This Is Your Brain On Music a while back and have just picked it up again (I seem to have this problem with non-fiction)

 

[Markus Laczko]

I devour books, this year I've fed my mind more the my stomach but currently

Baldesar Castiglione - How to achieve true greatness

Oscar Wilde - Picture of Dorian Gray

Lewis Carol - Alice in Wonderland

Malcom Gladwell - Outliers

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by Markus Laczko

I devour books, this year I've fed my mind more the my stomach but currently

Baldesar Castiglione - How to achieve true greatness

Oscar Wilde - Picture of Dorian Gray

Lewis Carol - Alice in Wonderland

Malcom Gladwell - Outliers

Dorian Gray is one the most hilariously and through-provokingly quotable pieces of fiction ever written.

 

[limping_decorum]

re-reading at some point before september american tabloid and the cold six thousand by james ellroy.

bloods a rover, the final installment, comes out in september.

 

[Sabka-Hosiery]

Marketing information on the web

Trying to learn how to market my website to attract more visits

http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Sabka-Hosiery Check it out

 

[skidsm]

just picked up

junot diaz - the brief wondrous life of oscar wao

60 pages in and i'm very impressed.

 

[mink31]

I just started Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie this weekend. It's fantastically and carefully written and a pleasure to read so far. Also, Rushdie has a great sense of humor and the absurd, making this one hard to put down.

 

[Pennglock]

I picked up Delillo's Underworld yesterday and started in on the first chapter. The Giants-Dodgers penant game featureing Sinatra, Jackie Gleason, and J Edgar Hoover- what an opening!

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

^ i really liked underworld a lot but i haven't met many people who have shared that opinion

 

[Connemara]

I've only read the foreward and introduction (the rest will have to wait 'till finals are done) but I am excited to delve into this.

Will also try to read Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, but I think the Yeats tome will require all of my attention.